Poll: Crazy or Brilliant? Retrofitting a Multi-Terrain Monitor

[Bluesky 07]

I'm intrigued with the Multi-Terrain Monitor feature and want to retrofit it to my '07 Sport. Wondering how much interest there is here in coming up with a way to do it. I posted the following in the 4th Gen thread but all members are welcome to comment or suggest ideas.

Placing and wiring cameras would be simple enough; I'm thinking one on the lower front bumper, one on the bottom of each side mirror, and one somewhere on the rear hatch or spoiler.

The challenge is how to see the live feed, with the choice to toggle between a 4-way split view from all cams or a full-screen view from any one source. My ideal solutions in order of preference would be:

1. Send the images to my iPad, which I have set up for navigation when off-roading. This is by far the best alternative because the mod's usefulness declines along with the available screen size on which the images can be seen.

2. Send the images to my head unit (Kenwood DDX373BT), though it only had one video input for a backup camera;

3. Mount a dedicated screen (though I wouldn't do the mod unless it's removable when not in use).

I've done some searching online and haven't seen any aftermarket kits or splitter-type devices that could feed the images to a iPad or tablet.

We have an immense and impressive range of knowledge and experience here and I'm hoping there's enough interest to collectively come up with a way to do this mod or that someone has seen a kit I've missed.

 

[prcGTI]

I have some of this capability on my 3rd Gen 4Runner in that I have both rear b/u camera and a front facing camera that I use with my Pioneer AVH4200NEX double DIN stereo.

I can select Camera mode on the stereo and then toggle between the rear or front facing camera as desired. Obviously, it doesn't have all of the options of the Multi Terrain system, but still works well.

 

[Bumbo]

I really like that feature in the LC.

I think it would be useful... sometimes I am just doing some leisure driving in the desert and on some hill climbs all I see is sky... makes it pretty difficult to figure out if I can proceed or if I need a change in direction towards the top.

Unless you are actually wheeling, most people don't want to get in and out of the truck to spot such a basic thing.

Any tool that promotes saftey and helps me not fall off a cliff sounds good to me.